turn away from the pain you don’t want turning down to avoid them when they call strange words i heard a long-long time ago i wish i could go back to a summer time i knew more than twenty years ago lay between the sheets, lie underneath the maple tree

now, i can’t smile

lying down in the gr*ss with the wind around us as we smile and talk listen to your grandma sing those country songs she’d tell us how the maple turns to fire every four years we’d lay in the gr*ss all summer just to watch the autumn come around

i can’t smile i can’t smile

now i live alone and your so far away yeah, i call you every year just around the holidays i still see you in the night lying above me in the gr*ss

i can’t smile

now, turn away from the pain you don’t want turning down to avoid them when they call i can’t believe this letter that said you died i think i’m gonna go back to the house in north carolina and lay in the backyard get drunk and let the leaves just bury me, bury me